Conference

During her press appearance today, Hillary Clinton acknowledged that about 60,000 emails, including sent and received, went through her home email server that she used during her tenure as secretary of state. About half of those, she said, were work related. UPI reports:

Clinton explained the vast majority of her emails went to .gov accounts, ensuring they would become public record, and that she voluntarily released 30,000 of 60,000 emails on the clintonemail.com server. She also asked the State Department to make all her emails available to the public, giving "unprecedented insight" into a high government official's daily duties.

According to the State Department website, Mrs. Clinton began serving as secretary of state January 21, 2009 and her final day was February 1, 2013, a total of 1,473 days. This comes to about 20.3 emails per day, including weekends. Although most top government officials are on call seven days a week, even excluding weekends the average comes to 28.5.

Based on a 2012 Fortunearticle, the average email user gets 147 email messages a day.

But word of the event didn't leak out until hours before event.

Hillary Clinton will be holding a press availability today at the United Nations in New York City. But all members of the press won't be able to attend. Only those who requested credentials 24 hours before the event (or about 18 hours before news of the availability leaked out) will be credentialed.

MSNBC's Alex Seitz-Wald reported on the arrangement just now on MNSBC:

"It was a promise that's been shattered."

Yesterday, several outlets reported that the Democrats would "almost certainly" forgo the official conference process to get a health-care bill passed, opting instead to negotiate largely behind closed doors. Now, C-SPAN and other media outlets are criticizing the plan's lack of transparency.